Dominic Serres, 1722–1793, French, active in Britain (from the 1750s)
Title:
Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent
Date:
ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 18 inches (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "D. Serres 177[...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.566
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
pediment | cattle | pastures | kitchen garden | men | gravel | hills | woman | children | trees | family | garden | dwelling | grazing | lawn | country house | landscape | hedges | fence | field | view | livestock | burial
Associated Places:
England | Addington | West Malling | United Kingdom | Kent
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)50th Anniversary Exhibition (Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 2001-09-01 - 2002-05-31)Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 200-201, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 47-48, 113, no. 25, pl. 25, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 252, 281, no. 305, fig. 305, N6764 H36 + (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 248-249, cat. 110, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)